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Calif bullet train faces funding, legal challenges | Fox News: "$2.6 billion in bonds for construction of the initial 130-mile segment of the bullet train in the Central Valley. The move allows the state to tap $3.2 billion in federal funds for the project."
$44 million dollars/mile!
Wednesday, July 18, 2012
Texas honor student jailed for truancy likely spent night with 'hard-core' criminals | Fox News
Texas honor student jailed for truancy likely spent night with 'hard-core' criminals | Fox News: "Diane Tran, an 11th-grade honor student at Willis High School near Houston, was sent to jail for 24 hours last Wednesday by Judge Lanny Moriarty and ordered to pay a $100 fine for excessive truancy."
"Tran, who works full-time at a dry-cleaning business and part-time for a wedding planner, has been supporting her brother and sister since her parents separated and her mother moved away."
"the girl likely spent her 24-hour jail sentence at Montgomery County Jail surrounded by suspected murderers, drug addicts and prostitutes.
"It's hard-core," he said of the jail, noting that past clients whom he has defended described it as "the worst experience of their life." "
""If you let one run loose, what are you going to do with the rest of them? Let them go, too?" [Judge] Moriarty told the station."
Perish the thought that people will work hard to support their family! We can't have that!
"I think the public policy of making kids attend school is necessary and 24 hours in jail would be pretty minimal and should get the point across," "
The policy is to ensure that children get a good education so it doesn't make sense to punish someone who is doing well in school!
"Tran, who works full-time at a dry-cleaning business and part-time for a wedding planner, has been supporting her brother and sister since her parents separated and her mother moved away."
"the girl likely spent her 24-hour jail sentence at Montgomery County Jail surrounded by suspected murderers, drug addicts and prostitutes.
"It's hard-core," he said of the jail, noting that past clients whom he has defended described it as "the worst experience of their life." "
""If you let one run loose, what are you going to do with the rest of them? Let them go, too?" [Judge] Moriarty told the station."
Perish the thought that people will work hard to support their family! We can't have that!
"I think the public policy of making kids attend school is necessary and 24 hours in jail would be pretty minimal and should get the point across," "
The policy is to ensure that children get a good education so it doesn't make sense to punish someone who is doing well in school!
RI MD admits guilt in NY rare-coin case with twist | Fox News
RI MD admits guilt in NY rare-coin case with twist | Fox News: "Still, Weiss was criminally implicated because he believed what he had were illegally obtained coins."
If ignorance of the law isn't a valid reason for breaking the law, why is someone guilty if they incorrectly thought they were breaking the law?
If ignorance of the law isn't a valid reason for breaking the law, why is someone guilty if they incorrectly thought they were breaking the law?
Energy Companies Are Not Sitting on "Inactive" Oil Leases, President Obama | Robert L. Bradley Jr. | Cato Institute: Commentary
Energy Companies Are Not Sitting on "Inactive" Oil Leases, President Obama | Robert L. Bradley Jr. | Cato Institute: Commentary: "Obtaining a lease is just the first step in producing energy, after which companies must obtain exploration and drilling permits. Leases may appear idle — but only because planned exploration and development are being held up by other federal agencies, such as the Bureau of Ocean, Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement.
Throughout the pre-leasing, leasing, exploration, drilling, and production processes, companies have to apply for more than 15 permits and comply with more than 90 sets of federal regulations. A permit just approved in Utah, for example, was four and half years in the making. In an earlier report on lease activity, this land would have been considered inactive.
The more the government stalls, the more oil and gas companies pay. Annual rental fees for leased land can now exceed $100,000 annually — and can increase as the lease goes on. This hardly suggests that companies are somehow incited to postpone drilling and production.
Not to worry, leases also include a "use it or lose it" provision to ensure that oil companies promptly return acreage unworthy of development to the government."
Throughout the pre-leasing, leasing, exploration, drilling, and production processes, companies have to apply for more than 15 permits and comply with more than 90 sets of federal regulations. A permit just approved in Utah, for example, was four and half years in the making. In an earlier report on lease activity, this land would have been considered inactive.
The more the government stalls, the more oil and gas companies pay. Annual rental fees for leased land can now exceed $100,000 annually — and can increase as the lease goes on. This hardly suggests that companies are somehow incited to postpone drilling and production.
Not to worry, leases also include a "use it or lose it" provision to ensure that oil companies promptly return acreage unworthy of development to the government."
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